Football Facts that sounds fake but are actually TRUE. A Thread 🧵

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A collection of incredible but verified football facts, including Hugo Sánchez scoring 38 La Liga goals with first-touch finishes, Chelsea being the only team to hold both UEFA Champions League and Europa League titles simultaneously, and various remarkable individual player achievements and statistics that defy belief.

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Football Facts that sounds fake but are actually TRUE. A Thread 🧵
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Hugo Sánchez scored 38 La Liga goals in the 1989/90 season for Real Madrid, and all of them came with a first touch finish.
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In 2016, Cristiano Ronaldo finished the year with more trophies (4) than games lost (3)
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Neymar reached the Ballon d'or top 10 without playing in europe.
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Gareth Bale's first trophyless season after leaving Tottenham was the season he went back to Tottenham.
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Throughout Eden Hazard's 7 years at Chelsea, the club never lost a home League match where the mercurial Belgian scored!
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If Bayern Munich conceded every shot on target, they still would've won the 2013/14 Bundesliga title.
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John Terry scored more Premier League goals for Chelsea than Andres Iniesta scored La Liga goals for Barcelona
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Darren Bent has more Premier League goals than Didier Drogba.
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Chelsea Football Club are the only team in history to have held the UEFA Champions League title and UEFA Europa League title simultaneously
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Arsenal have won the League at Anfield, White Hart Lane, Stamford Bridge, Old Trafford, and Highbury. The only club to do so.
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Real Madrid beat their own reserve side in the 1980 Copa Del Rey final.
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Ronaldo is the first ever recipient of the Puskas award.
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Jose Mourinho went nine years without losing a home game in the league
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Gary Lineker never received a yellow or red card during his career
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Mario Balotelli's only Premier League assist was for Sergio Aguero's title-winning goal vs QPR
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Cristiano Ronaldo have scored at least a goal in every minute of a football match
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Steve Bruce, being a defender scored 19 goals in all competitions for Manchester United in the 1990/91 season
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Kingsley Coman has won the league title in every year as a professional footballer until Bayern Munich signed Harry Kane
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Neymar won La Liga Player of the Month award before Lionel Messi
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Bas Dost scored 45 first touch goals in a row
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Philipp Lahm avoided fouls for over a year.
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Zlatan has played for six teams to have won the European Cup/Champions League but hasn't won it himself.
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Wayne Rooney, Gareth Bale and Kevin Davies are the only three players to have scored, assisted and put through their own net in same game.
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